<VV> Corvair Roundup

[AeroNed at aol.com]

I drove my 65 2 door coupe to Tulsa and back for the Great Plains Roundup.  
It was a great show, again, and well attended with Corvairs from OK, KS, 
MO, AR,  CO, and TX. Driving the car there wasn't enough, so we went on a 
couple cruises,  including a tour of the Glen Pray's Cord factory (very cool 
BTW).
 
Of course driving my Corvair is a daily event as it is my primary  
transportation to work every day and my "backup" vehicle is my '66 Corsa.
 
Yup, I'm infected,
Ned
 
 
In a message dated 9/26/2010 8:38:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
chartzel at comcast.net writes:

I just  completed my trip from Michigan to Vermont for our annual VICE
chapter  tours and meeting.  I drove my 1965 500 4-door with 140HP engine  
and
Powerglide trans.  I put 1,745 miles on the car and got 23.7 MPG  at freeway
speeds and thru the twisty hilly roads of Vermont for 4  days.  I delivered
four tires to Pete Koehler in PA and four wheels to  Tim Colson in NY.
There must be something to the story that synthetic oil  causes leaks as I
put Mobil 1 10W30 oil in before I left and the engine now  has some leaks
where it never leaked before.  Of course before this  trip I just used
whatever oil was cheapest at the FLAPS.  On the other  hand I never got that
good a gas mileage before, so maybe the synthetic oil  is slipperier than
cheap dino oil.  I did use the best premium gas at  every fill up. 
One of our tours was taking the ferry across Lake Champlain  to Fort
Ticonderoga.  A great time was had by all.
Clark (tired)  Hartzel


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